Clare O'Neil
‘Horribly, sexually violent’: How Australia’s women leaders deal with rising abuse
Women across the political spectrum are calling out the harassment that spreads online and spills into real life.
- Brittany Busch
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O’Neil reads riot act to agency as Labor seeks to keep housing probe secret
Coalition frontbencher Andrew Bragg has labelled Housing Australia, the embattled agency overseeing the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund, a “dysfunctional hellhole”.
- Paul Sakkal
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Housing Australia chair resigns before parliamentary grilling
Carol Austin was cleared of breaching the code of conduct at the organisation, but a review last year found “concerning organisational challenges”.
- Paul Sakkal
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‘Segregated’ city: The west alone can’t shoulder housing boom, minister warns
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says wealthier inner and middle suburbs must accept new housing as Wyndham, Melton and Brimbank have done the “heavy lifting”.
- Annika Smethurst
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Labor’s housing agenda in crisis amid complaints, resignations
A senior whistleblower says a slew of top executives at the agency in charge of Labor’s housing agenda quit amid claims of bad behaviour.
- Paul Sakkal
AI and a new ‘strike team’ deployed to combat housing crisis
The federal government will fast track the assessment of 26,000 homes held up by delays in the environmental approval process as it tries to meet its targets.
- Nick Newling
Housing minister, roundtable keen to take red pen to 3000-page building code
Business bosses, unions and ministers have agreed Australia must strip away red and green tape to speed up home construction, as momentum builds to overhaul Australia’s complex building code.
- Paul Sakkal, Shane Wright, Millie Muroi and Brittany Busch
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‘Ridiculous regulation’: Labor makes housing central to economic summit
As new data reveals homeownership becoming a more distant dream, slashing housing red tape is firming as an area in which new policies will follow Labor’s economic roundtable.
- Paul Sakkal and Shane Wright
Average Australian home value passes record $1 million
Despite growth in the number of residential homes and a slowdown in price growth, the value of Australian homes across all states climbed in the first three months of the year.
- Millie Muroi and Shane Wright
O’Neil says she’s not a YIMBY, but here’s how she plans to help fix the housing shortage
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says axing red tape would mean faster building as Labor is on track to fall short of its target to build 1.2 million homes by the end of the decade.
- Paul Sakkal and Shane Wright